In <DB352625B11C7B449262DE382AD536C539A3C0C68D at maserati.cars.ad> Kenneth Falor <kenneth.falor at fcer.com> writes:

Greetings, my company has a 5 person on call rotation that we just started.= Up to now only 1 person was paged if something went down, I would like to = modify xymon to allow it to change who is emailed/paged based on the week a= nd who is on call that week. Is this possible?

It's not built into Xymon, but fairly trivial to do with some creative configuration of the alerts.cfg (hobbit-alerts.cfg in current versions).

Your alert configuration probably has

HOST=blabla MAIL joe at example.com

So poor Joe gets all the alerts. Instead, I would do this:

include oncall.cfg

HOST=blabla MAIL $ONCALL

and in the oncall.cfg I would put

$ONCALL=joe at example.com

Then you can update the oncall.cfg file when the on-call person changes - via cron, manually, or via some basic script/webpage that you setup. Xymon will automatically pick up when the file changes.

Regards, Henrik

Thanks for both ideas. Will see which fits best!

Kenneth.

-----Original Message----- From: Clark, Sean [mailto:sean.clark at twcable.com] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 8:20 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [xymon] on call rotation

Another way to accomplish this, although outside of xymon, is to have a mail alias setup

That is the method we took - mainly because other people outside of xymon can also send an email to "alias"@domain.com

So your rules are

HOST=blabla MAIL=oncall at domain.com

And then outside on the SMTP server for domain.com, we setup aliases that rotate to the correct people

Not really using xymon in a clever way, but this worked in our setup, especially with other people being able to just email Oncall at domain.com and getting the oncall person

-Sean

On 1/31/11 5:53 AM, "Henrik Størner" <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:

In <DB352625B11C7B449262DE382AD536C539A3C0C68D at maserati.cars.ad> Kenneth Falor <kenneth.falor at fcer.com> writes:

...

Greetings, my company has a 5 person on call rotation that we just started.= Up to now only 1 person was paged if something went down, I would like to = modify xymon to allow it to change who is emailed/paged based on the week a= nd who is on call that week. Is this possible?

It's not built into Xymon, but fairly trivial to do with some creative configuration of the alerts.cfg (hobbit-alerts.cfg in current versions).

Your alert configuration probably has

HOST=blabla MAIL joe at example.com

So poor Joe gets all the alerts. Instead, I would do this:

include oncall.cfg

HOST=blabla MAIL $ONCALL

and in the oncall.cfg I would put

$ONCALL=joe at example.com

Then you can update the oncall.cfg file when the on-call person changes - via cron, manually, or via some basic script/webpage that you setup. Xymon will automatically pick up when the file changes.

Regards, Henrik

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cheers, martin

On Sat, 29 Jan 2011, Johan Sjöberg wrote:

You need to write a script that accepts the phone number and status message as arguments, then you just use the SCRIPT command in hobbit-alerts.cfg. Or,  you could send e-mails to your SMS server with FORMAT=SMS and let the SMS server map the e-mail address to a phone number.

 

/Johan

 

From: akshar bhosale [mailto:akshar.bhosale at gmail.com] Sent: den 29 januari 2011 13:59 To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [xymon] regarding sending sms alerts with xymon

 

Hi, we have xymon 4.2.2 on RHEL 5.3 OS installed for cluster with 32 nos of nodes for monitoring . We are trying to integrate sms alerts with xymon. We have sms server with smash and gnokii setup. How we should integrate this server with our xymon server so that is can send alerts.

Thank you, -Akshar B. NDF Computech